The Saturn V rocket, is 18 meters taller than the Statue of Liberty, and 15 meters taller than the Big Ben clock tower. It was hard to miss, as it stood at Launch-Pad 39A at Cape Canaveral on July 16, 1969, ready to launch the Apollo 11 Astronauts the moon.
The restored Saturn V rocket, at The Johnson Space Center, is the only one of three remaining, to be comprised completely of stages built for spaceflight.
The Saturn V rocket is one of the most underappreciated aspects of the Apollo program, in the amount of time and effort that had to go into creating this mammoth rocket. The Saturn V rocket is truly massive, in both size and weight, and is still the most powerful rocket ever made by man.
The powerful Saturn V rocket is rolled onto Launch Pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center.
Saturn V rocket is shown lifting off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
The next stage of Americas Moon rocket is taking shape to dramatically reduce travel time in space and carry more on a single flight. The purpose of the new Moon rocket is to explore the Moon thoroughly and learn if we could reach it by 2028.
After announcing the formation of Space Force, Vice-President Pence, who chairs the newly resurrected National Space Council, said, “Apollo 11is the only event in the 20th century that stands a chance of being widely remembered in the 30th century.
Apollo 11 is the incredible story of how a nation forged the technology during the turbulent 1960s to slip humanity from the bonds of its native planet.
Today the Command Module of Apollo 11 is a relic from another age, 11,700 pounds of aluminum alloy, stainless steel and titanium, built in Downey, Calif.
Poppy Northcutts experience as the first woman involved in NASA’s Mission control, says that Apollo 11 is nothing short of awe-inspiring, and that, on this 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing, it still has the capacity to teach, as well as astound.
CLICK Below for 1969 Poppy Northcutt interview:
Poppy Northcutt discusses her work in mission control, then later as Women’s Advocate and attorney:
Saturn V Wikipedia below;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn_V